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If you make the mistake of capitalism, you should not be criticized. But we should have self-criticism.

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We are against the world war being fomented by the superpowers and also against all the local wars of aggression which they instigate or back.

We should not blame foreigners for problems afflicting China. There are things in the West that should be considered acceptable to us, and things that are unacceptable. It is up to us to decide.

Journalists should give 80 percent of space to reporting good things and achievements and 20 percent to criticizing the seamy side of things and expose our shortcomings [...] This conforms with the reality of society.

We should prepare more knives and forks, buy more plates and sit around the table to eat Chinese food in the Western style, that is, each from his own plate. By doing so, we can avoid contagious diseases.

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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

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Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the moral, nor the ethics, nor the will to solve the problems of poverty.

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